!nsp!re – Top 10 Skills Children Learn from the Arts

Great post from Lisa Phillips, author of “The Artistic Edge: 7 Skills Children Need to Succeed in an Increasingly Right Brain World”. This ran on the ARTSblog website in November of last year but it’s worth bookmarking and going back to every now and then.

Despite the growing amount of studies that cite the enhanced value to arts education, funding at all levels continue to dwindle, which has potentially negative effects on our ability as a society to deliver well-rounded individuals out into the world who are capable of doing the things Lisa describes in her post.